Etymological Spellings in William Caxton's Translations
Etymological Spellings in William Caxton's Translations
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威廉·卡克斯顿翻译中的词源拼写
DOI：
10.1080/0013838x.2021.1952536
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发表时间：
2021
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0.3
通讯作者：
Mitsumi Uchida
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作者：
Yoko Iyeiri;Mitsumi Uchida
英语中的许多拉丁语单词在早期现代英语时期经历了拼写的词源化：例如，在中古英语中，获得 ，分别导致 和 。为了探索英语拼写形式词源的最初过程及其背后的动机，本研究调查了威廉·卡克斯顿的《巴黎和维埃纳》和《狐狸雷纳德》，以及它们可能的法语和荷兰语源文本。看来，在卡克斯顿时代，英语已经陷入了词源拼读的环境中。尽管他的一些拼写是词源性的，而另一些则是非词源性的，但当他面对法语来源中相应的词源形式时，他似乎毫不犹豫地引入词源性拼写。然而，总体而言，这种趋势在中古英语晚期还不一致，这表明逐一讨论不同词汇的重要性。
A number of Latinate words in English experienced the etymologising of spelling in the Early Modern English period: and in Middle English, for example, obtained , resulting in and respectively. With the aim of exploring the initial process of, and the motives behind, the etymologising of English spelling forms, this study investigates William Caxton’s Paris and Vienne and Reynard the Fox, together with their probable source texts in French and Dutch. It appears that English was already immersed in the environment of etymological respelling in Caxton’s age. Although some of his spellings were etymological and others were non-etymological, he does not seem to have hesitated to introduce etymological ones when he faced corresponding etymological forms in the French source. On the whole, however, the tendency is not yet consistent in late Middle English, indicating how important it is to discuss different lexical items one by one.